Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Opuntia elata
Cactaceae Juss.
Opuntia elata Link & Otto ex Salm-Dyck , legitimate, scientific
Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, J.F.M.A.H.I.F. zu (1834), Hortus Dyckensis ou Catalogue des Plantes: 361 [tax. nov.]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Opuntia cardiosperma K.Schum. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Opuntia bonaerensis Speg. legitimate misapplication: Opuntia paraguayensis K.Schum. legitimate by Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Cactaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 69, Fig. 14C, Map 89 misapplication: Opuntia paraguayensis K.Schum. legitimate by Swinbourne, R.F.G. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Cactaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 1: 335 misapplication: Opuntia paraguayensis K.Schum. legitimate by Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cactaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 204 misapplication: Opuntia paraguayensis K.Schum. legitimate by Stajsic, V. & Carr, G.W. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cactaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 126, Fig. 25z-bb
  • APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2018), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2017 to 2018. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2018: 8 [secondary reference]
Aymerich, P. & Font, F. (16 January 2023), On the identity of Opuntia elata s.l. (Cactaceae) introduced in the Mediterranean region. A taxonomic and nomenclatural update. Mediterranean Botany 44: 4 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Opuntia bonaerensis Speg. legitimate by Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, J.F.M.A.H.I.F. zu (1834), Hortus Dyckensis ou Catalogue des Plantes: 361